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Sachitano (facebook.com) From the Palm Beach Post A WPTV-Channel 5 reporter was fired last week after West Palm Beach Police officials complained she illegally taped detectives talking to an aggrieved mother. Insiders tell me Angela Sachitano, 34, was shown the door after police spokesman...

TAMPA - A man showed up the in the lobby of ABC Action News right before he went across the street and robbed a bank, according to Tampa Police. Detectives say 35-year-old Tod Stewart walked into the Florida Bank on 4105 North Himes Avenue Friday afternoon around 3 p.m. and handed a note to a...

I’m producing a video for a client that he is placing in a PowerPoint… will an AVI video work?

I am working on a real estate show and one of the builders asked if I would do a side project for him of virtual tours of his projects. Does anyone have any information on the virtual camera itself and rates charged for the tours? This is somewhat uncharted territory for me do any help O can...

Management at Tampa ABC affiliate WFTS-Ch. 28 is still deciding how to handle staffers who created a joke news video which later hit the Internet, reporting that an employee had been revealed as one of golfer Tiger Woods’ many alleged mistresses. The video, fronted by multimedia journalist...

A veteran news videographer is accused of striking an officer in the back with a tripod, then pushing him in the chest with his hand, because the officer ordered him to leave a “restricted area” inside Miami City Hall last week. Tony Jerez, a longtime helicopter photographer for CBS4, ended...

Ice Scuplture Video, Oc Fair, Orange County Fair, Reporter Breaks Ice Sculpture, Live on the air. You got to watch this one. link iurBQbs8iy8

Watch below as WTVT reporter Charley Belcher gets knocked down and then falls onto a kid during a live shot. Belcher was reporting a story about autism and the benefits of skateboarding, at a local Tampa skate park. He wasn’t fast enough to get out of the way of one of the skater kids. A kid...

Okay – It’s time for me to get a new home video camera… or should I just say get one. For the past few years I have shot home video with my Z1U but stopped taking it simply because its size and I don’t want to damage it or get it stolen. So what do you think I should get? I have been...

I’m in an odd situation. I am trying to come up with a rate for a friend to shot and edit a 30 minute video. Just b-roll and nat sound I get from my camera. I’m going to shoot and edit the video myself with some canned graphics and music I have. Usually with a host and voice over I would...

Let’s get together and write a book. I know it sounds a little crazy but as we were talking about in AMERICA THE STORY OF US. The subject of all the history we have seen in our careers came up… I thought it would be nice if we all got together and collaborated and put together a bunch of...

Has anyone watched this on the History Channel? It’s amazing. Very well produced. The animation is like nothing I have ever seen. This show rivals Discovery’s Earth from last year.

I have heard a rumor that there may by a class action suit coming out soon against a number of stations and networks. The suite is about the stations and networks profiting from viewers submitting video and pictures and the iewers not receiving any compensation. What do you think of this?

As most of you know I am fighting cancer. I am doing very well but as always with cancer I am uncertain of my future. I am going to put a DVD togather talking dirrectly to my 5 year old son. This DVD will be handed over to my brother to be locked up if the day ever comes that I am gone and...

I need to pull video from a wwebsite for a project I am working on. Does anyone know how to do this? The video is adobe.